News and events archive

News from 2014

Hannah Delaney is a
final year PhD researcher in the Centre for Transport and Society.
Hannah was awarded the Transport Geography Research Group
Postgraduate Prize for the paper she presented at the Royal
Geographical Society Conference 2014. Emerald Group Publishing
sponsored the prize which was awarded for the best paper authored
and presented by a postgraduate student in a TGRG-sponsored session
at the conference. The paper is entitled ‘Walking and Cycling
Interactions on Shared-Use Paths’. Central to this paper are the
relations between cyclists and pedestrians on shared-use paths and
the consequential impact of these on journey experiences. The paper
argues that it is necessary to investigate the non-visible
experiential interactions that take place on shared-use paths and
not to focus only on the outward visible signs of conflict; which
is often the case with research that informs shared-path design
guidance. The paper draws from data collected during Phase I of
Hannah’s PhD research (Phase II has now also been completed).
Further details on the research can be found
here.

December 2014 - CTS Winter Conference 2014

A record number of delegates (70 in total)
from local authorities, consultancies, SMEs and Universities
attended this event. The nine presentations covered the wide
reaching research happening within CTS. These included
discussion of new theoretical perspectives for understanding the
transport planning process, dealing with complexity in planning
transport futures, the potential of coach travel, the experience of
urban walking, and how digital technology is used to connect home
by mobile workers. Behaviour change also occupied many of the
debates in terms of planning work place mobility, and
cycling.

February 2014 - CTS seminar - Dr Scott
Le Vine

Dr Scott Le Vine, is delivering a seminar on Monday 17
February from 12:30 - 14:00 in room 1R23, on the topic of
'Recent trends in young adults' mobility'.

In the period since the 1990s, young adults
have tended to travel fewer miles than earlier generations did at
the same age. This unprecedented phenomenon has occurred both
in Britain and several peer industrialised societies.

This seminar will cover new evidence regarding
this observation, identifying both what is now known and the
important research questions that remain open.

Dr Scott Le Vine
is a research associate (post-doc) at Imperial College's Centre for
Transport Studies, and a Trustee of the charity Carplus. In
addition to studying trends in personal mobility, his other main
line of research addresses shared-mobility systems (eg car
clubs).

February 2014 - Report on
CTS
winter
conference

January 2014 - Professor Glenn Lyons appointed as Strategy
Director to New Zealand Ministry of Transport

The New Zealand Ministry of Transport has made
a small number of senior appointments to help enhance its focus on
strategic and long term policy thinking for the transport system.
Glenn Lyons will join the Ministry as Strategy Director on
secondment from UWE Bristol from 1 February to 30 September 2014.
During this period he will devote three months of his time to the
role. The aim of the role is to provide thought leadership and
intellectual challenge. Specifically, the role, alongside other
similar appointments, will involve: identifying and addressing
significant transport challenges; acting as a critical sounding
board for the key issues the Ministry will be providing advice to
Government on; helping to build Ministry capability and frameworks
for analysis; and developing a strategy for research to help inform
the major transport policy decisions for New Zealand.

Glenn has been appointed in recognition of his
longstanding expertise in the social and behavioural dimensions of
travel and transport. He remarks, “This is an outstanding and
exciting opportunity for me to be able to play a part in
translating academic research and thinking into impact in policy
and practice; it is the second time in my career that I have been
seconded to a national government department, and I welcome the
chance to once again be working with colleagues in the civil
service."